I peeled back the front of the forward pad like in the video. It was easy to peel back and I didn't damage the pad. I felt around on the rear pad and sure enough, there was another port under the rear deck pad, that one in the very rear of the pad. I ended up peeling up one end of all four pads to expose the leaky ports.

As it turned out, sometime in the past someone had already re-sealed the ports. On the older Waves, Hobie only glued the ports closed. Now they screw them closed. My old 1998 boat now was sporting 4 screws per port. The first port I worked on was clearly leaking since I could press on it and see water and black algae pumping in and out. With the screws removed the port pried out easily. The original Hobie glue was visible as an amber, brittle residue, like old hot glue. The re-seal was done very poorly using some white tub caulk added after the port was screwed down, not even under the edge of the lid! The old amber glue had not been cleaned up so the surfaces did not meet smoothly and the ill fitting and unsealed lid had a lot of air gaps and so it leaked terribly.

I spent a lot of time scraping off all of the old Hobie glue with the blunt end of a file. One hull hardly had any and but the other hull had huge globs and drips like stalactites, It took a lot of chipping to get the hard amber glue off both the lid and the port. There was still some sticky residue so I scrubbed it with "Goof Off" which is xylene in a spray can. Xylene, sometimes erroneously sold as "xylol", is the BEST solvent for contact cement . Finally, I have clean surfaces but it's beginning to rain.

I'm ready to reseal the lids and glue the pads back down. I plan to use 4200 (not permanent like 5200) and Weldwood contact cement on the pads. However, now it's dark, it's raining, my tube of 4200 has solidified (it's only 5 years old), and the Super Bowl is starting. This one will have to wait until tomorrow.